Today we visited a motion capture lab. Motion caption is basicaly recording movement and puting onto a digital model. There were I think 12 Inferred camras that picked up signals from shiney silver bubble looking things. The bubble thingys are stratigically placed on the object being recorded. . The inferred camaras see the bubble things and take that information and put it on to a computer. on the computer you see the bubbles as dots and you play connect the dots to make the object more defined. The camras also pick up the movements of the bubbles and record it. The movements are recorded on a graph, the person working on the computer can take the informtion and use it to create an animation.

Before all of the information can be taken from the camras, you need to calibrate the area you are using. You calibrate it using a magic wand that has three shiny bubbles stratigically placed on it. You walk around the are waving the wand so the camras can create a digital model of the area you are using.

Thats basically what we learned today. we got to see short animations that used motion capture to be created.

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